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Director: Wong Kar-wai
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From Time Out Film Guide
An all-star cast, Chris Doyle's extraordinary cinematography and innovative action sequences choreographed by Samo Hung were not enough to turn Wong Kar-Wai's most ambitious movie from an art house triumph into a commercial success. Wong takes characters from a famous martial arts novel (Jin Yong's The Eagle-Shooting Heroes) and deposits them in the middle of a vast desert to work through their various obsessions and manias: set in the eye of an off-screen storm, it's a tender group portrait of fallible people crawling from the wreckage of their lives. At its emotional core is Brigitte Lin playing a self dangerously divided between Yin and Yang.Author: TR
Cast & crew
Director: Wong Kar-wai
Producer: Tsai Sung-Lin
Cast: Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing, Brigitte Lin Ching-Hsia, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Tony Leung Chiu-Wai, Maggie Cheung, Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung, Charlie Young full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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